A moment later, the distance between the two sides closed.
"Take a good look, Lieutenant Colonel!
"The lookout's voice carried a trace of tension and certainty.
"It's the newly risen Dawn Pirates! Their captain is Herman Dawn, with a bounty of seventy million Beli!"
"Seventy million?!"
A flash of surprise crossed Lieutenant Colonel Dayin's eyes, quickly replaced by greed and a thirst for merit. Such a bounty was considered astronomical in the Four Seas. If he captured them, promotion to colonel would be just around the corner!
He was not intimidated by that number. His past experience told him that as long as the bounty was below one hundred million, there was every chance of taking them down with the warship's firepower and well-trained Marines!
"All gunners, take your positions!"
Dayin drew the saber at his waist and pointed it straight at the pirate ship ahead.
"Once they're within range, open fire at full force! Sink them!"
"Yes, sir!"
The warship accelerated again and soon entered the effective range of its cannons.
"Fire!"
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
Several cannons roared at once. Black cannonballs trailed gunpowder smoke as they tore through Kong's air like a swarm of death, blanketing Herman's Revenge.
On the deck, Dawn had just finished a set of sword swings. The shriek of cannonballs cutting through Kong's air reached him. He glanced at the incoming barrage from the corner of his eye and casually swung toward it.
A horizontally spread gravity wall formed instantly, stretching across the cannonballs' path like an impregnable barrier.
The howling cannonballs struck the force field as if they had hit an invisible wall of steel. They abruptly stopped in Kong's midst, then their internal structures instantly collapsed under immense pressure, exploding one after another.
Rumble!
A series of fireballs and black smoke